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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Bela Lugosi

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Ambition Character Roles
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality

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